Quotes by Sir Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne

British author, physician and philosopher

Lived from: 1605 - 1682

Category: Philosophers | Scientists | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 19 october 1605 Died: 19 october 1682

  • We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.
  • No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.
  • It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

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  • But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
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  • A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
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  • All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
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  • As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
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  • Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
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  • Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
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  • Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
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  • Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.
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  • Death is the cure for all diseases.
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  • Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
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  • He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.
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  • I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition.
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  • It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
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  • It is we that are blind, not fortune.
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  • Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
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  • Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
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  • Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
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  • Nature is the art of God.
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  • No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.
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  • Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
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What are the most famous quotes from Sir Thomas Browne?

The two most famous quotes from Sir Thomas Browne are:

  • "But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity."
  • "A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender."

When did Sir Thomas Browne live?

Sir Thomas Browne was born in 1605 and died in the year 1682.